In the 2020 election there were 36 individuals who were on a ballot as a presidential candidate. Among those, the candidate who placed last is Zac Scalf, who was only on in Vermont and who received twenty-nine votes. Here is a Reason Magazine interview with Scalf.

Scalf claims to be surprised that anyone voted for him. The interviewer did not point out that he could not have got on the ballot without submitting the names of three Vermont residents who were his candidates for presidential elector. It is likely that the three individuals voted for Scalf, and probably some of the friends of the three elector candidates heard about Scalf and also voted for him.

Texas has already canvassed most of the write-in votes for presidential declared write-in candidates. See the state’s election returns here.

Texas write-ins for president, for the declared candidates, are generally bigger than such write-ins in other states. That is because the names of the write-in declared candidates are conspicuous at the polling places. Brian Carroll of the American Solidarity Party already has over 1,200.

When Ballot Access News posted the New York registration data for November 1, 2020, the totals for the Women’s Equality Party and the Reform Party were not available, but now they are. Women’s Equality has 5,889 active members, and Reform has 1,688.